20 WordPress Plugins for Local Business Network Sites

I’ve been considering the steps to convert an existing Women’s business networking site from Joomla to WordPress.

Joomla has wonderful capabilities, but it’s a beast to manage in the back-end, whereas building the same functionality in WordPress will require some tweaking, but the administration of WordPress is significantly easier.

This list is mostly for my own reference, but it might be helpful to someone else trying to do the same thing in the future, so here it is.

MEMBER PROFILE PAGES

In order to make this work, I need to make authors into members, and extend the fields they can enter and that will be viewable on their profile pages. I also need to add images to those profile pages, and make them searchable by business type for a business directory type section.

to initially link only to profile pages, but I’m sure there’s some code I can gain inspiration from here to get the job done. Otherwise, it’s off to RentACoder to get a hack worked out for a searchable directory like our Joomla site has.

MEMBER LOGINS

Since members will be logging in frequently, I want to put a login form in a sidebar to make it accessible wherever they might be.

The networking events, luncheons, breakfasts and trade shows are the heart of the business, so the event calendar has to work for this. Not only will people need to be able to browse a calendar view, but they need to be able to see all the events in a list, click for more detail, and pay for tickets to whichever events they choose.

Another challenging aspect of the site will be the registration. Since registration includes many extra fields and a required payment, things might get a little tricky. Here are a few of the plugins I’ve found that might be useful:

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Create the guest list, choose an invitation card, send invitation by Email, The recipient that got your iCard along with useful information, will be able to answer you if he/she will participate in your event. This answer you will see in the site.